Your friends and admirers throughout the world are glad to be able to celebrate your 70th birthday. During your long, delicate and difficult life you have created an oeuvre that will survive the challenges of time.I have often wondered where you get the strength from. Is it perhaps from the understanding—which came to you very early—that ultimately we humans, as individuals, live in a state of mortal detachment from the course of the universe? Your equanimity in personal affairs has astounded me just as often as your courage in public ones; and your inexhaustible good humor seems to me like a gift from the heavens.
Im Sommer 1948—oder war's 49?—wohnte Brecht in Salzburg bei mir. Ich hatte die Absicht, mit ihm zusammen eine Oper zu machen. Er erzählte mir einen Stoff, den ich vergessen habe. Oder vielmehr, ich vermische ihn in meiner Erinnerung mit der “Dreigroschenoper”, der er sehr ähnlich war. Ubrig blieb nichts als der Titel: “Von den Freuden und Leiden der gröβeren und kleineren Seeräuber”.
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